Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-18

in taking their redeemed natures,
lifted out of the thraldom of evil and
brought into the sunshine, into the
liberty and into the employment OF
truth, that God took from the bosom
of love. His only begotten son and
glorified Him among men and
angels, and principalities and
powers as the working force OF the
divine government.
A mediator is person who trans
acts business between parties. A
broker is mediator between men
who buy and men who sell. A mer-
chant is Il mediator between those
who raise grain and those who con
sumo it. Public esteem is growth
and prosperity not an accident, be-
cause of the survival of the fittest.
The best mediator between God ana
man, deserves the largest confidence
and the most absolute trust. We be-
lieve in mighty men, because OF their
lunrarllled achievements. Nothing
81 dwarfs men or parties or circumstan-
ces, as to reject the great for the
small, the good for the bad, the true
for those wanting in excellence. Ma
tions that have turned from Christ to
Buddha or to the Virgin Mary or to
men that turn from the one mediator
to the spirit mediums and substitute
cheats and shams for veritable God
with almighty power in heaven and
on earth, impoverish themselves, de-
grade the intellect and take the back
bone out of faith.
They who do business with God
through the Holy Spirit, who make
His word the rule of his faith and
practice, and who live such a life that
He can work on them, become strong
in God and in the power of His
might. They walk the roadways OF
progress. They undertake the work
God wants done. They enter the
open doors of opulence. They pre-
pare channels or furnish them to the
fountains ofprosperity wherever comes
the streams OF plenty that changes
the wilderness into Il garden and
makes the desert bud and blossom as
the rose. The men who are great and
prosperous and of commanding in
fluence are the men on whose escutch-
con is written 81 serve" This is the
law of their being. Men who live for
exaltation and self-advancement die.
They who grasp and piunder and
play the bandit fail. They are cut off
from human sympathy and east out Of
the heart.
To-day the world is weak and man
staggers toward conflict and turmoil
and strife, because this medal power
is rejected. Workingmen draw off
from employers, labor separates from
capital, class parts from class, and so
ciety is divided into caste conditions
because this medal power is not en-
ployed. There is no work given the
Holy Spirit to do by these maddened,
rebellous men on either side. The
church is left out in the cold in all
these disputes, as much as is Il water
logged ship from the count of an effect
i've navy. Religion is kept for Sun
days and sanctuaries not for working
men in trouble, or for great corpora
tions at their wits end, which
have to defy competition and
still make Il profit. 1t is all
wrong. We ought to trust God better
who has again and again found his
opportunity in mans extremity. The
Holy spirit can mediate between
man and man. Think of the whole
race occupying one broad level of
moral equality with no recognized dis
tinction in the sight of heaven but Of
personal character. Then the dream
of Burns would be fulfilled and a
man would be man "for a that" }"
and the declaration of the apostle
would be realized that, "No man
liveth to himself" Wonder not that
this spirit ennobled the disciples and
lifted the fisherman to the heights of
an apostle and made the proud and
naughty jew the champion OF the
brotherhood of men.